Honest Fraudster or Common Scammer?
Can there be an Honest Scammer and a Common Scammer. The Honest Scammer I encountered sold gold said to be in Cameroon. The offer was with pictures of the gold, the trading license and you just name it.
As the reader of this blog knows we are very good at challenging the Camreoonian fraudsters. We arrange to buy the Cameroonian gold direct via our own contact having all the licenses, When this seller realized how he would be checked he reverted with the following statement. Quote Sorry all the documents forwarded previously were fakes. Unquote
Very honest and for once true. The documents were all fakes. Next statement were on the other hand not very clever. Quote Your buyer is a fake Unquote. How could he tell. I do not know as we had not given him any details on the buyer.
The “Common scammer” on the other hand started with some very interesting plausible statements. The gold was owned by a representative of the Saudi Royal family. The proposed deal was based on the fact that the gold was kept in safety by a named Italian bank. The deal also supposed the gold to be exported out of Italy. Thus some banking instruments were needed as well as some security from the buyer had to be given to the seller /seller´s mandate.
As it happens we are direct to another Italian bank able to do any purchase in Italy. We know also that the Italian bank is able to buy and resell the gold on the pricing offered without any issue. Actually the bank keeping the gold would also be in the position to trade the gold. Thus the offer to buy the gold was turned down because Quote The seller does not want to sell to anyone in Italy Unquote.
As anyone would understand there can not be anything wrong with an Italian buyer for gold in Italy. Even better that it was a bank. Anyhow, I choose to challange the supposed mandate and told him that the answer showed beyond any reasonable doubt that this was a scam.
I was the asked to proof him wring and if not Fly a kite. As we know it is the seller that has to proof that his/her statements are correct. Just the wording “Fly a Kite” places this person among the Common scammers.
